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Ethan Graham right of Healy brought down this 63-inch bull in the Alaska Range in 2008 from 150 yards with a 270 It was Ethanrsquos first big game kill With Ethan is his dad Billy
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The first high dollar item I purchased upon returning to AK in 2000 was a 10x10 Arctic Oven (AO) As a former REI employee (a gear junky having a real job as well) I currently own at least six high end tents including several single wall types Recognizing AOs are bulky and heavy they have one feature that appears unmatched The inner tent is polypropylene (sp) and in combination with a small dry-burning wood stove you can effectively dry out almost any wet gear just by hanging it up to dry inside the tent hellipThe other pair of hunters had a 12x12 Barneys Bombshelter that was cold dark and damp like a cave even with a kerosene heater and lantern going
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Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate and enjoy my AO8 tent Irsquove had the chance to ta ke it on a couple of trips and use it in a variety of conditions The tent is one of the best Irsquove ever used O n our 10 day canoe trip in northern British Columbia the tent and stove kept us warm and dry in torrential downp ours proving that rain is nothing to this tent - and that ventilation is excellent Days of continuous ra in never soaked through It also easily withstood 50 kmhr and more winds recently during an arctic trip to Baker La ke Nunavut where we were subjected to non-stop hard wind on the tundra Irsquove included a photo here of the tent at the campground near Baker Lake Nunavut - maybe yoursquod like it for your websitetestimonials Your custom ers can rest assured that these Arctic Oven tents will perform in all kinds of weather
Thank you for making such an excellent product
July 21 st 2007 bull 804 AM
Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
Herersquos a photo of our Arktika in action It was our first trip with the new tent For the sake of sc ience we experimented to see how warm it would get With the outside temperature around -10 F we stoked up t he fire We stopped the experiment when the inside temperature was 120 F We couldnrsquot bear the heat anymore
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3Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
At the end of hunting sea-son who takes home Alaskarsquos wildlife Is it residents or out-of-state hunters The answer depends on the animal mdash most brown bears head out of state most moose and caribou are eaten by Alaskans
Alaska is home to almost a million caribou and close to 200000 moose In 2007 Alas-kans took home 90 percent of the 7400 harvested moose About 6750 moose were har-vested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident hunters
Nonresident hunters har-vested only about 1350 caribou in Alaska in 2007 out of a har-vest of about 22000 animals Thatrsquos about six percent Alas-kans took home about 94 per-cent of the caribou harvested in the state mdash and probably more since that estimate of resident
harvest is conservative
A management mythCritics of predator manage-
ment claim the practice is done to benefit ldquo wealthy out of state huntersrdquo and ldquo non-Alaska trophy huntersrdquo But the numbers donrsquot support that and hunting is closed to non-residents in most of the areas where predator management is taking place
Predator management is taking place in six areas near Fairbanks in parts of Game Management Units 20 and 25 near Tok in Unit 12 near Glen-nallen in parts of Unit 13 near McGrath in parts of Unit 19 west of Anchorage in parts of Unit 16 and on the southern end of the Alaska Peninsula in part of Unit 9 In all these areas combined in 2007 nonresident hunters took just 6 percent of the caribou and 5 percent on the moose
Wildlife biologist Becky
Schwanke helps manage Unit 13 near Glennallen an area thatrsquos home to the Nelchina Caribou Herd Schwanke said all the caribou harvested in Unit 13 in 2007 were taken by residents as well as all of the moose
Schwanke said that because of the structure of the inten-sive management law as well as subsistence laws nonresident hunting is eliminated when there is not enough game for residents But even before Unit 13 was closed to nonresidents the majority of hunters were residents In 2001 only two per-cent of the almost 3000 hunters in Unit 13 were nonresidents
Wildlife biologist Roger Sea-voy is based in McGrath and helps manage wildlife in that area GMU 19 Seavoy said that the area is closed to nonresi-dent hunting He wrote ldquoThere are no nonresident seasons for moose within 19A or the portion of Unit 19D East where we have a predator control program It
is fair to say that there is no nonresident harvest in any of the predator control areas man-aged out of McGrath Once in a while a nonresident reports taking a moose within these areas but on further review it generally turns out that they have misreported a moose taken elsewhererdquo
Why are nonresidents tak-ing even a few percent of the animals in predator manage-ment areas GMUs are divid-ed into smaller subunits and hunting may be permitted in one subunit and not another Predator management is imple-mented to increase numbers of caribou in some areas moose in others Predator control in the Delta Junction area (20D) for example is intended to benefit caribou and nonresidents are permitted to hunt moose there Thirdly unlike moose caribou move extensively between Game Management Units depending on the season and the year and
caribou management focuses more on the herd than on the GMU Nonresidents may be allowed to hunt one herd in a GMU but not another
Big game breakdownAlaska has an estimated
30000 brown bears statewide Nonresident hunters harvest more brown bears than Alas-kans In 2007 about 1900 brown bears were harvested in Alaska About 700 were taken by Alaska residents and about 1200 were taken by nonresi-dents mdash about 67 percent
About one-third all the brown bears harvested come from the Alaska Peninsula 630 bears were taken from Unit 9 and more than half those came from the southern half of the peninsula Unit 9E where 50 bears were taken by residents and almost 300 by nonresidents Kodiak Island (Unit 8) and
Who takes Alaskarsquos big game home Depends on the animal
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Southeast Alaskarsquos Admiralty Chichagof and Baranof islands (Unit 4) are the other top brown bear producers
There are an estimated 100000 black bears in Alaska In the past five years harvest has averaged about 2800 each year Statewide harvest has increased steadily in the past five years from about 2500 in 2003 to 3250 in 2007
In general about half the statewide harvest of black bears is by resident and half by non-
residents However that varies tremendously from area to area and some areas see considerable nonresident hunting In Unit 2 in Southeast Alaska Prince of Wales and adjacent islands the five-year average (450year) shows that about 88 percent of the black bears are taken by nonresident hunters
Alaskarsquos Dall sheep are popu-lar with nonresident hunters and the harvest is split fairly evenly between residents and nonresidents In 2007 nonresi-dents took 403 sheep while res-ident hunters took 513 about
57 percentIn 2007 518 mountain goats
were harvested 158 by nonresi-dents (about 30 percent) and 360 by resident hunters
Other animals receive virtu-ally no attention from nonresi-dent hunters Only one musk ox was taken in 2007 by a non-resident and 257 were taken by Alaskans Only three bison were taken by nonresidents and 117 were harvested by residents
Riley Woodford is the editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Eric Engman News-Miner
In 2007 Alaskans
took home 90 percent
of the 7400 harvested
moose About 6750 moose were
harvested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident
hunters
GAME Residents nonresidents and bearsContinued from Page 3
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5Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Please see NUMBERS Page 7
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
The number of hunters in Alaska is in steep decline according to a survey released last year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Therersquos just one problem mdash itrsquos not true
The report ldquo2006 National Survey of Fishing Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Rec-reation Alaskardquo released in May 2008 compared hunters in Alaska in 2006 to hunters in 2001 and reported 26 per-cent fewer hunters The 81-page report contains a lot of information but that detail was highlighted in the news triggering an outcry of con-cern that hunters are a dying breed in Alaska
That didnrsquot ring true for Bob Sutherland a biometri-cian with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game Sutherland works with hunt-er harvest data among other things and he just didnrsquot see that trend
ldquoIf the number of hunt-ers dropped three percent or eight percent yoursquod be ask-ing lsquoWhat happenedrsquo A 25 percent drop would be really strikingrdquo he said ldquoWe havenrsquot seen that drop in numbersrdquo
The USFWS survey report-ed there were about 55000 Alaska resident hunters in 2006 They contrasted that with their 2001 figure of 74000 Alaska hunters mdash a 26 percent decline
Sutherland knew from har-vest data that the number of
hunters had not declined by 26 percent But how do you answer the question ldquoHow
many hunters are there in Alaskardquo
The USFWS used tele-
phone surveys Sutherland looked at harvest data over a five-year period He tracked
individuals who entered the Division of Wildlife Conserva-tionrsquos hunter harvest system and then detailed their reap-pearance over time
ldquoIf they came in on a reg-istration hunt a draw hunt or a general season hunt for big game animals they enter Wildlifersquos hunter harvest systemrdquo he said ldquoWe can uniquely identify him and now I can track that guyrdquo
Fish and Game refutes decline in hunting numbersON THE WEBbull The Alaska survey can
be found at wwwcensusgovprod2008pubsfhw06-akpdf
bull The national survey can be found at libraryfwsgovnat_survey2006_finalpdf
Jeri CarpenterNews-Miner file
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6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
13354007-8-7-09HE
7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
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EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
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Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
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Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
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EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
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Delta
River
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Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
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first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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Arctic Oven - own one Posted by 17 Rem on Sep 29 2004
The first high dollar item I purchased upon returning to AK in 2000 was a 10x10 Arctic Oven (AO) As a former REI employee (a gear junky having a real job as well) I currently own at least six high end tents including several single wall types Recognizing AOs are bulky and heavy they have one feature that appears unmatched The inner tent is polypropylene (sp) and in combination with a small dry-burning wood stove you can effectively dry out almost any wet gear just by hanging it up to dry inside the tent hellipThe other pair of hunters had a 12x12 Barneys Bombshelter that was cold dark and damp like a cave even with a kerosene heater and lantern going
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Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate and enjoy my AO8 tent Irsquove had the chance to ta ke it on a couple of trips and use it in a variety of conditions The tent is one of the best Irsquove ever used O n our 10 day canoe trip in northern British Columbia the tent and stove kept us warm and dry in torrential downp ours proving that rain is nothing to this tent - and that ventilation is excellent Days of continuous ra in never soaked through It also easily withstood 50 kmhr and more winds recently during an arctic trip to Baker La ke Nunavut where we were subjected to non-stop hard wind on the tundra Irsquove included a photo here of the tent at the campground near Baker Lake Nunavut - maybe yoursquod like it for your websitetestimonials Your custom ers can rest assured that these Arctic Oven tents will perform in all kinds of weather
Thank you for making such an excellent product
July 21 st 2007 bull 804 AM
Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
Herersquos a photo of our Arktika in action It was our first trip with the new tent For the sake of sc ience we experimented to see how warm it would get With the outside temperature around -10 F we stoked up t he fire We stopped the experiment when the inside temperature was 120 F We couldnrsquot bear the heat anymore
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3Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
At the end of hunting sea-son who takes home Alaskarsquos wildlife Is it residents or out-of-state hunters The answer depends on the animal mdash most brown bears head out of state most moose and caribou are eaten by Alaskans
Alaska is home to almost a million caribou and close to 200000 moose In 2007 Alas-kans took home 90 percent of the 7400 harvested moose About 6750 moose were har-vested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident hunters
Nonresident hunters har-vested only about 1350 caribou in Alaska in 2007 out of a har-vest of about 22000 animals Thatrsquos about six percent Alas-kans took home about 94 per-cent of the caribou harvested in the state mdash and probably more since that estimate of resident
harvest is conservative
A management mythCritics of predator manage-
ment claim the practice is done to benefit ldquo wealthy out of state huntersrdquo and ldquo non-Alaska trophy huntersrdquo But the numbers donrsquot support that and hunting is closed to non-residents in most of the areas where predator management is taking place
Predator management is taking place in six areas near Fairbanks in parts of Game Management Units 20 and 25 near Tok in Unit 12 near Glen-nallen in parts of Unit 13 near McGrath in parts of Unit 19 west of Anchorage in parts of Unit 16 and on the southern end of the Alaska Peninsula in part of Unit 9 In all these areas combined in 2007 nonresident hunters took just 6 percent of the caribou and 5 percent on the moose
Wildlife biologist Becky
Schwanke helps manage Unit 13 near Glennallen an area thatrsquos home to the Nelchina Caribou Herd Schwanke said all the caribou harvested in Unit 13 in 2007 were taken by residents as well as all of the moose
Schwanke said that because of the structure of the inten-sive management law as well as subsistence laws nonresident hunting is eliminated when there is not enough game for residents But even before Unit 13 was closed to nonresidents the majority of hunters were residents In 2001 only two per-cent of the almost 3000 hunters in Unit 13 were nonresidents
Wildlife biologist Roger Sea-voy is based in McGrath and helps manage wildlife in that area GMU 19 Seavoy said that the area is closed to nonresi-dent hunting He wrote ldquoThere are no nonresident seasons for moose within 19A or the portion of Unit 19D East where we have a predator control program It
is fair to say that there is no nonresident harvest in any of the predator control areas man-aged out of McGrath Once in a while a nonresident reports taking a moose within these areas but on further review it generally turns out that they have misreported a moose taken elsewhererdquo
Why are nonresidents tak-ing even a few percent of the animals in predator manage-ment areas GMUs are divid-ed into smaller subunits and hunting may be permitted in one subunit and not another Predator management is imple-mented to increase numbers of caribou in some areas moose in others Predator control in the Delta Junction area (20D) for example is intended to benefit caribou and nonresidents are permitted to hunt moose there Thirdly unlike moose caribou move extensively between Game Management Units depending on the season and the year and
caribou management focuses more on the herd than on the GMU Nonresidents may be allowed to hunt one herd in a GMU but not another
Big game breakdownAlaska has an estimated
30000 brown bears statewide Nonresident hunters harvest more brown bears than Alas-kans In 2007 about 1900 brown bears were harvested in Alaska About 700 were taken by Alaska residents and about 1200 were taken by nonresi-dents mdash about 67 percent
About one-third all the brown bears harvested come from the Alaska Peninsula 630 bears were taken from Unit 9 and more than half those came from the southern half of the peninsula Unit 9E where 50 bears were taken by residents and almost 300 by nonresidents Kodiak Island (Unit 8) and
Who takes Alaskarsquos big game home Depends on the animal
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Southeast Alaskarsquos Admiralty Chichagof and Baranof islands (Unit 4) are the other top brown bear producers
There are an estimated 100000 black bears in Alaska In the past five years harvest has averaged about 2800 each year Statewide harvest has increased steadily in the past five years from about 2500 in 2003 to 3250 in 2007
In general about half the statewide harvest of black bears is by resident and half by non-
residents However that varies tremendously from area to area and some areas see considerable nonresident hunting In Unit 2 in Southeast Alaska Prince of Wales and adjacent islands the five-year average (450year) shows that about 88 percent of the black bears are taken by nonresident hunters
Alaskarsquos Dall sheep are popu-lar with nonresident hunters and the harvest is split fairly evenly between residents and nonresidents In 2007 nonresi-dents took 403 sheep while res-ident hunters took 513 about
57 percentIn 2007 518 mountain goats
were harvested 158 by nonresi-dents (about 30 percent) and 360 by resident hunters
Other animals receive virtu-ally no attention from nonresi-dent hunters Only one musk ox was taken in 2007 by a non-resident and 257 were taken by Alaskans Only three bison were taken by nonresidents and 117 were harvested by residents
Riley Woodford is the editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
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In 2007 Alaskans
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of the 7400 harvested
moose About 6750 moose were
harvested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident
hunters
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Please see NUMBERS Page 7
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
The number of hunters in Alaska is in steep decline according to a survey released last year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Therersquos just one problem mdash itrsquos not true
The report ldquo2006 National Survey of Fishing Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Rec-reation Alaskardquo released in May 2008 compared hunters in Alaska in 2006 to hunters in 2001 and reported 26 per-cent fewer hunters The 81-page report contains a lot of information but that detail was highlighted in the news triggering an outcry of con-cern that hunters are a dying breed in Alaska
That didnrsquot ring true for Bob Sutherland a biometri-cian with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game Sutherland works with hunt-er harvest data among other things and he just didnrsquot see that trend
ldquoIf the number of hunt-ers dropped three percent or eight percent yoursquod be ask-ing lsquoWhat happenedrsquo A 25 percent drop would be really strikingrdquo he said ldquoWe havenrsquot seen that drop in numbersrdquo
The USFWS survey report-ed there were about 55000 Alaska resident hunters in 2006 They contrasted that with their 2001 figure of 74000 Alaska hunters mdash a 26 percent decline
Sutherland knew from har-vest data that the number of
hunters had not declined by 26 percent But how do you answer the question ldquoHow
many hunters are there in Alaskardquo
The USFWS used tele-
phone surveys Sutherland looked at harvest data over a five-year period He tracked
individuals who entered the Division of Wildlife Conserva-tionrsquos hunter harvest system and then detailed their reap-pearance over time
ldquoIf they came in on a reg-istration hunt a draw hunt or a general season hunt for big game animals they enter Wildlifersquos hunter harvest systemrdquo he said ldquoWe can uniquely identify him and now I can track that guyrdquo
Fish and Game refutes decline in hunting numbersON THE WEBbull The Alaska survey can
be found at wwwcensusgovprod2008pubsfhw06-akpdf
bull The national survey can be found at libraryfwsgovnat_survey2006_finalpdf
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
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Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
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Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
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3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 Fairbanks Alaska 99709
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 Fairbanks Alaska 99709
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19Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Arctic Oven - own one Posted by 17 Rem on Sep 29 2004
The first high dollar item I purchased upon returning to AK in 2000 was a 10x10 Arctic Oven (AO) As a former REI employee (a gear junky having a real job as well) I currently own at least six high end tents including several single wall types Recognizing AOs are bulky and heavy they have one feature that appears unmatched The inner tent is polypropylene (sp) and in combination with a small dry-burning wood stove you can effectively dry out almost any wet gear just by hanging it up to dry inside the tent hellipThe other pair of hunters had a 12x12 Barneys Bombshelter that was cold dark and damp like a cave even with a kerosene heater and lantern going
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1000 E Intl Airport Road Anchorage Alaska 99518 Phone (907) 562-2293 Fax (907) 562-8368 Email infoalaskatentcom
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May 24th 2007 bull 1154 AM
Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate and enjoy my AO8 tent Irsquove had the chance to ta ke it on a couple of trips and use it in a variety of conditions The tent is one of the best Irsquove ever used O n our 10 day canoe trip in northern British Columbia the tent and stove kept us warm and dry in torrential downp ours proving that rain is nothing to this tent - and that ventilation is excellent Days of continuous ra in never soaked through It also easily withstood 50 kmhr and more winds recently during an arctic trip to Baker La ke Nunavut where we were subjected to non-stop hard wind on the tundra Irsquove included a photo here of the tent at the campground near Baker Lake Nunavut - maybe yoursquod like it for your websitetestimonials Your custom ers can rest assured that these Arctic Oven tents will perform in all kinds of weather
Thank you for making such an excellent product
July 21 st 2007 bull 804 AM
Dear Alaska Tent and Tarp
Herersquos a photo of our Arktika in action It was our first trip with the new tent For the sake of sc ience we experimented to see how warm it would get With the outside temperature around -10 F we stoked up t he fire We stopped the experiment when the inside temperature was 120 F We couldnrsquot bear the heat anymore
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3Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
At the end of hunting sea-son who takes home Alaskarsquos wildlife Is it residents or out-of-state hunters The answer depends on the animal mdash most brown bears head out of state most moose and caribou are eaten by Alaskans
Alaska is home to almost a million caribou and close to 200000 moose In 2007 Alas-kans took home 90 percent of the 7400 harvested moose About 6750 moose were har-vested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident hunters
Nonresident hunters har-vested only about 1350 caribou in Alaska in 2007 out of a har-vest of about 22000 animals Thatrsquos about six percent Alas-kans took home about 94 per-cent of the caribou harvested in the state mdash and probably more since that estimate of resident
harvest is conservative
A management mythCritics of predator manage-
ment claim the practice is done to benefit ldquo wealthy out of state huntersrdquo and ldquo non-Alaska trophy huntersrdquo But the numbers donrsquot support that and hunting is closed to non-residents in most of the areas where predator management is taking place
Predator management is taking place in six areas near Fairbanks in parts of Game Management Units 20 and 25 near Tok in Unit 12 near Glen-nallen in parts of Unit 13 near McGrath in parts of Unit 19 west of Anchorage in parts of Unit 16 and on the southern end of the Alaska Peninsula in part of Unit 9 In all these areas combined in 2007 nonresident hunters took just 6 percent of the caribou and 5 percent on the moose
Wildlife biologist Becky
Schwanke helps manage Unit 13 near Glennallen an area thatrsquos home to the Nelchina Caribou Herd Schwanke said all the caribou harvested in Unit 13 in 2007 were taken by residents as well as all of the moose
Schwanke said that because of the structure of the inten-sive management law as well as subsistence laws nonresident hunting is eliminated when there is not enough game for residents But even before Unit 13 was closed to nonresidents the majority of hunters were residents In 2001 only two per-cent of the almost 3000 hunters in Unit 13 were nonresidents
Wildlife biologist Roger Sea-voy is based in McGrath and helps manage wildlife in that area GMU 19 Seavoy said that the area is closed to nonresi-dent hunting He wrote ldquoThere are no nonresident seasons for moose within 19A or the portion of Unit 19D East where we have a predator control program It
is fair to say that there is no nonresident harvest in any of the predator control areas man-aged out of McGrath Once in a while a nonresident reports taking a moose within these areas but on further review it generally turns out that they have misreported a moose taken elsewhererdquo
Why are nonresidents tak-ing even a few percent of the animals in predator manage-ment areas GMUs are divid-ed into smaller subunits and hunting may be permitted in one subunit and not another Predator management is imple-mented to increase numbers of caribou in some areas moose in others Predator control in the Delta Junction area (20D) for example is intended to benefit caribou and nonresidents are permitted to hunt moose there Thirdly unlike moose caribou move extensively between Game Management Units depending on the season and the year and
caribou management focuses more on the herd than on the GMU Nonresidents may be allowed to hunt one herd in a GMU but not another
Big game breakdownAlaska has an estimated
30000 brown bears statewide Nonresident hunters harvest more brown bears than Alas-kans In 2007 about 1900 brown bears were harvested in Alaska About 700 were taken by Alaska residents and about 1200 were taken by nonresi-dents mdash about 67 percent
About one-third all the brown bears harvested come from the Alaska Peninsula 630 bears were taken from Unit 9 and more than half those came from the southern half of the peninsula Unit 9E where 50 bears were taken by residents and almost 300 by nonresidents Kodiak Island (Unit 8) and
Who takes Alaskarsquos big game home Depends on the animal
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Southeast Alaskarsquos Admiralty Chichagof and Baranof islands (Unit 4) are the other top brown bear producers
There are an estimated 100000 black bears in Alaska In the past five years harvest has averaged about 2800 each year Statewide harvest has increased steadily in the past five years from about 2500 in 2003 to 3250 in 2007
In general about half the statewide harvest of black bears is by resident and half by non-
residents However that varies tremendously from area to area and some areas see considerable nonresident hunting In Unit 2 in Southeast Alaska Prince of Wales and adjacent islands the five-year average (450year) shows that about 88 percent of the black bears are taken by nonresident hunters
Alaskarsquos Dall sheep are popu-lar with nonresident hunters and the harvest is split fairly evenly between residents and nonresidents In 2007 nonresi-dents took 403 sheep while res-ident hunters took 513 about
57 percentIn 2007 518 mountain goats
were harvested 158 by nonresi-dents (about 30 percent) and 360 by resident hunters
Other animals receive virtu-ally no attention from nonresi-dent hunters Only one musk ox was taken in 2007 by a non-resident and 257 were taken by Alaskans Only three bison were taken by nonresidents and 117 were harvested by residents
Riley Woodford is the editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Eric Engman News-Miner
In 2007 Alaskans
took home 90 percent
of the 7400 harvested
moose About 6750 moose were
harvested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident
hunters
GAME Residents nonresidents and bearsContinued from Page 3
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If you have any questions please call 907-832-5832
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Please see NUMBERS Page 7
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
The number of hunters in Alaska is in steep decline according to a survey released last year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Therersquos just one problem mdash itrsquos not true
The report ldquo2006 National Survey of Fishing Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Rec-reation Alaskardquo released in May 2008 compared hunters in Alaska in 2006 to hunters in 2001 and reported 26 per-cent fewer hunters The 81-page report contains a lot of information but that detail was highlighted in the news triggering an outcry of con-cern that hunters are a dying breed in Alaska
That didnrsquot ring true for Bob Sutherland a biometri-cian with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game Sutherland works with hunt-er harvest data among other things and he just didnrsquot see that trend
ldquoIf the number of hunt-ers dropped three percent or eight percent yoursquod be ask-ing lsquoWhat happenedrsquo A 25 percent drop would be really strikingrdquo he said ldquoWe havenrsquot seen that drop in numbersrdquo
The USFWS survey report-ed there were about 55000 Alaska resident hunters in 2006 They contrasted that with their 2001 figure of 74000 Alaska hunters mdash a 26 percent decline
Sutherland knew from har-vest data that the number of
hunters had not declined by 26 percent But how do you answer the question ldquoHow
many hunters are there in Alaskardquo
The USFWS used tele-
phone surveys Sutherland looked at harvest data over a five-year period He tracked
individuals who entered the Division of Wildlife Conserva-tionrsquos hunter harvest system and then detailed their reap-pearance over time
ldquoIf they came in on a reg-istration hunt a draw hunt or a general season hunt for big game animals they enter Wildlifersquos hunter harvest systemrdquo he said ldquoWe can uniquely identify him and now I can track that guyrdquo
Fish and Game refutes decline in hunting numbersON THE WEBbull The Alaska survey can
be found at wwwcensusgovprod2008pubsfhw06-akpdf
bull The national survey can be found at libraryfwsgovnat_survey2006_finalpdf
Jeri CarpenterNews-Miner file
The Chena Pump Landing is a popular place for hunters to drop their boats in the Chena River so they can head out moose hunting
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6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Visitors Center open weekdays 10 am-5 pm 10 am-6 pm on SatSun
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Become a member at creamersfieldorg
Our trails are always openFriends of Creamers
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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BIG MOOSE CONTEST
Under New Ownership ndash Jeff Masters owner
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907-474-1009 bull Mon-Fri 9-6 bull Sat by appointment
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All Phases of Taxidermy Custom Mounts Available bull SCI Official Measurer
First place receives a free moose
shoulder mount from Harter Taxidermy Call for Details
9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
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11Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
YTA7
YTA2
YTA6
YTA3
YTA4
YTA1
YTA5
ImpactArea
FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
12354459-8-7-09HE
Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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12 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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TO DONATE MEAT TO THE ELDERS NUTRITION PROGRAM CONTACT THE TRIBAL OFFICE AT (907) 476-7124
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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Southeast Alaskarsquos Admiralty Chichagof and Baranof islands (Unit 4) are the other top brown bear producers
There are an estimated 100000 black bears in Alaska In the past five years harvest has averaged about 2800 each year Statewide harvest has increased steadily in the past five years from about 2500 in 2003 to 3250 in 2007
In general about half the statewide harvest of black bears is by resident and half by non-
residents However that varies tremendously from area to area and some areas see considerable nonresident hunting In Unit 2 in Southeast Alaska Prince of Wales and adjacent islands the five-year average (450year) shows that about 88 percent of the black bears are taken by nonresident hunters
Alaskarsquos Dall sheep are popu-lar with nonresident hunters and the harvest is split fairly evenly between residents and nonresidents In 2007 nonresi-dents took 403 sheep while res-ident hunters took 513 about
57 percentIn 2007 518 mountain goats
were harvested 158 by nonresi-dents (about 30 percent) and 360 by resident hunters
Other animals receive virtu-ally no attention from nonresi-dent hunters Only one musk ox was taken in 2007 by a non-resident and 257 were taken by Alaskans Only three bison were taken by nonresidents and 117 were harvested by residents
Riley Woodford is the editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Eric Engman News-Miner
In 2007 Alaskans
took home 90 percent
of the 7400 harvested
moose About 6750 moose were
harvested by Alaskans and 685 by nonresident
hunters
GAME Residents nonresidents and bearsContinued from Page 3
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5Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Please see NUMBERS Page 7
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
The number of hunters in Alaska is in steep decline according to a survey released last year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Therersquos just one problem mdash itrsquos not true
The report ldquo2006 National Survey of Fishing Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Rec-reation Alaskardquo released in May 2008 compared hunters in Alaska in 2006 to hunters in 2001 and reported 26 per-cent fewer hunters The 81-page report contains a lot of information but that detail was highlighted in the news triggering an outcry of con-cern that hunters are a dying breed in Alaska
That didnrsquot ring true for Bob Sutherland a biometri-cian with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game Sutherland works with hunt-er harvest data among other things and he just didnrsquot see that trend
ldquoIf the number of hunt-ers dropped three percent or eight percent yoursquod be ask-ing lsquoWhat happenedrsquo A 25 percent drop would be really strikingrdquo he said ldquoWe havenrsquot seen that drop in numbersrdquo
The USFWS survey report-ed there were about 55000 Alaska resident hunters in 2006 They contrasted that with their 2001 figure of 74000 Alaska hunters mdash a 26 percent decline
Sutherland knew from har-vest data that the number of
hunters had not declined by 26 percent But how do you answer the question ldquoHow
many hunters are there in Alaskardquo
The USFWS used tele-
phone surveys Sutherland looked at harvest data over a five-year period He tracked
individuals who entered the Division of Wildlife Conserva-tionrsquos hunter harvest system and then detailed their reap-pearance over time
ldquoIf they came in on a reg-istration hunt a draw hunt or a general season hunt for big game animals they enter Wildlifersquos hunter harvest systemrdquo he said ldquoWe can uniquely identify him and now I can track that guyrdquo
Fish and Game refutes decline in hunting numbersON THE WEBbull The Alaska survey can
be found at wwwcensusgovprod2008pubsfhw06-akpdf
bull The national survey can be found at libraryfwsgovnat_survey2006_finalpdf
Jeri CarpenterNews-Miner file
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6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
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907-474-1009 bull Mon-Fri 9-6 bull Sat by appointment
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All Phases of Taxidermy Custom Mounts Available bull SCI Official Measurer
First place receives a free moose
shoulder mount from Harter Taxidermy Call for Details
9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM
GAME PROCESSING YOUR OWN MEAT BACK
Price includes cut amp wrap - incoming weight
bull BEAR SHEEP DEER or CARIBOU $103 lb bull MOOSE 80cent lb bull BEEF HOGS or BUFFALO 74cent lb
Breakfast Sausage amp Custom Grinding Available Custom Smoked Sausages Beginning in October
2400 DAVIS ROAD FAIRBANKS AK bull 456-3885 bull wwwsantassmokehousecom Open Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm bull Sat 10 am-5 pm
NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
The Paddle Sports Center at The Paddle Sports Center at
Open for FUN Open for FUN
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ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE
bull Fits All ATVrsquos 400 or larger bull Easily change from wheels to tracks in just minutes
bull Tracks are 96 long x 12 wide We Have Them On Display Stop by for A Demonstration Video
Alaska FUN CENTER 1817 College Rd bull 452-3455 bull wwwalaskafuncentercom
CAT TRACK Mud bull Snow bull Sand bull Bog Water
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EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
YTA7
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YTA6
YTA3
YTA4
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ImpactArea
FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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12 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
13Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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14 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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15Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 Fairbanks Alaska 99709
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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If you have any questions please call 907-832-5832
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5Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Please see NUMBERS Page 7
By RILEY WOODFORDAlaska Department of Fish and Game
The number of hunters in Alaska is in steep decline according to a survey released last year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Therersquos just one problem mdash itrsquos not true
The report ldquo2006 National Survey of Fishing Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Rec-reation Alaskardquo released in May 2008 compared hunters in Alaska in 2006 to hunters in 2001 and reported 26 per-cent fewer hunters The 81-page report contains a lot of information but that detail was highlighted in the news triggering an outcry of con-cern that hunters are a dying breed in Alaska
That didnrsquot ring true for Bob Sutherland a biometri-cian with the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game Sutherland works with hunt-er harvest data among other things and he just didnrsquot see that trend
ldquoIf the number of hunt-ers dropped three percent or eight percent yoursquod be ask-ing lsquoWhat happenedrsquo A 25 percent drop would be really strikingrdquo he said ldquoWe havenrsquot seen that drop in numbersrdquo
The USFWS survey report-ed there were about 55000 Alaska resident hunters in 2006 They contrasted that with their 2001 figure of 74000 Alaska hunters mdash a 26 percent decline
Sutherland knew from har-vest data that the number of
hunters had not declined by 26 percent But how do you answer the question ldquoHow
many hunters are there in Alaskardquo
The USFWS used tele-
phone surveys Sutherland looked at harvest data over a five-year period He tracked
individuals who entered the Division of Wildlife Conserva-tionrsquos hunter harvest system and then detailed their reap-pearance over time
ldquoIf they came in on a reg-istration hunt a draw hunt or a general season hunt for big game animals they enter Wildlifersquos hunter harvest systemrdquo he said ldquoWe can uniquely identify him and now I can track that guyrdquo
Fish and Game refutes decline in hunting numbersON THE WEBbull The Alaska survey can
be found at wwwcensusgovprod2008pubsfhw06-akpdf
bull The national survey can be found at libraryfwsgovnat_survey2006_finalpdf
Jeri CarpenterNews-Miner file
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6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Become a member at creamersfieldorg
Our trails are always openFriends of Creamers
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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907-474-1009 bull Mon-Fri 9-6 bull Sat by appointment
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9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
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11Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
YTA7
YTA2
YTA6
YTA3
YTA4
YTA1
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ImpactArea
FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
12354459-8-7-09HE
Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
13Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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19Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
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Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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TO DONATE MEAT TO THE ELDERS NUTRITION PROGRAM CONTACT THE TRIBAL OFFICE AT (907) 476-7124
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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6 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
The fall Fortymile caribou hunt is like one of those small towns you drive through in the Midwest at 80 mph mdash if you blink you miss it
Last year for example the hunt off the Steese Highway lasted only four days and the Taylor Highway hunt was open for six days before hunt-ers reached the harvest quo-tas and the Department of Fish and Game closed the hunt in both areas by emer-gency order
Therersquos no reason to think this year will be any different assistant area biologist Tor-sten Bentzen in Tok said
ldquoThatrsquos what wersquore expect-ing based on previous yearsrdquo he said ldquoThatrsquos how itrsquos tend-ed to go in the last few years If the herd isnrsquot right on the road and itrsquos not as accessible to hutners on ATVS it may stay open longerrdquo
The Fortymile caribou hunt is broken into three separate hunts in the fall and two in winter The total fall harvest
quota is 640 animals The winter quota is 210
The fall hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in Units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190
animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Last year hunters reached the quota in all three hunts
Biologists did a photo cen-sus of the herd in July which should allow them to get a good estimate on the herd Bentzen said They were not
able to do a herd census last year The last census two years ago estimated the herd size at about 40000 animals the same number it has been at for the last three or four years
ldquoWe did get a good cen-sus but we havenrsquot finished counting the photographsrdquo
he said ldquoThis year wersquoll actu-ally be able to pin it down and figure out if we do have some kind of increase or notrdquo
The herd had a relatively weak calf crop this year with only about 70 percent birth rates this spring
ldquoThatrsquos lowrdquo Tok area biol-ogist Jeff Gross said ldquoAbove 80 percent is what we like to see Ninety percent is idealrdquo
The herd should benefit
The early hunter gets the caribou in Fortymile huntFORTYMILE CARIBOU CLATTER
Season Aug 10 to Sept 20 unless closed by emergency order
Harvest quota 640 for the fall hunt mdash 290 for the Taylor Highway 190 for the Steese Highway and 160 for roadless portion
Permits Available online at the Department of Fish and Game Web site or at ADFampG offices in Delta Junction Fairbanks and Tok as well as the Eagle Trading Post in Eagle the Outpost in Tok and the Steese Roadhouse in Central
Hotline 267-2310
Best chanceis to be thereon opening day
Matt Hage photo
The fall Fortymile hunt with the biggest quota is the Taylor Highway hunt in game units 12 and 20E The harvest quota for that hunt is 290 animals The Steese Highway hunt in Game Management Unit 25C and 20B has a quota of 190 animals and the quota for a roadless hunt in Units 20B and 20D is 160 animals
Please see FORTYMILE Page 8
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
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Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
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HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
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Blair LakesImpact Area
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SmallArms
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Stuart CreekImpact Area
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Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
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et Slough
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Delta Junction
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Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
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location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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7Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Sutherland found that 174272 Alaska residents went hunting between 2003 and 2007 about 25 percent of the total population Overall he found the number of hunters is stable
The number of Alaska hunt-ers isnrsquot defined simply by the number of hunting licenses sold to Alaska residents in a given year Sutherland found that many hunters donrsquot hunt every single year But license sales do offer some clues In 2006 there were 90675 Alaska resi-dent hunting licenses sold In 2001 there were 86155 Alaska resident hunting licenses sold That would indicate an increase of about four percent
The number of unique resi-dent hunters who have obtained at least one harvest ticket in a year is another trend indicator State records indicate that con-sistently between 56000 and 66000 resident individuals (age 16 and older) participated in big game hunting There is no evidence to indicate a signifi-cant drop in participation in big game hunting by Alaska resi-dents during this period
Another indicator of hunting trends is the number of unique resident applicants for draw permit hunts That has also remained stable between 2001 and 2006 During this period harvest records show annual unique applicants for draw per-mits has consistently remained in the 20000 to 22000 range every year
Sutherland added that his numbers donrsquot reflect trappers any bird hunters (upland and ducks) or bear hunters unless they hunt on a draw ticket So those are additional hunters
Using the hunter harvest data Sutherland performed a mark-recapture experiment on Alaska hunters Mark-recapture is a fundamental tool used by wildlife biologists a technique that allows biologists to esti-mate numbers of animals
ldquoI did a mark recapture experiment just like you do with grouse or bears But Irsquom using humansrdquo he said
Sutherland found some interesting things about Alaska hunters Comparing hunters year-to-year over five years he found about one-third only hunt one year and do not reappear in
the systemAbout one-third hunt every
single year and about one-third skip a year or two
Sutherland offered some suggestions as to why hunters might take a year off He said many hunters apply for permit hunts for sheep or moose for example and if they donrsquot get a permit for the hunt they want they donrsquot go that year Oth-ers have conflicting family and work situations for example they have young kids and take a few years off and then resume when they can start hunting with their kids
Sutherland concluded the number of hunters in Alaska is stable Although there was not a drop in the number of hunt-ers between 2001 and 2006 the percentage of the popula-tion that hunts is slightly lower Thatrsquos because the Alaska pop-ulation increased from about 630000 to about 680000 and that stable number of hunters
is a proportionately smaller per-centage
ldquoThe Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice said there were 25 per-cent fewer hunters and I show indeed that is not the caserdquo Sutherland said
The survey also reported that sport fishing in Alaska was down Bill Romberg a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish and Game said that is inconsistent with the depart-mentrsquos data He wrote ldquoSpecifi-cally the 2006 FHWAR survey reported a 25 percent decline in numbers of resident Alas-ka anglers almost 30 percent decline in total anglers (resi-dent and nonresident) and a 18 percent decline in participa-tion (days fished) between 2001 and 2006 However our agency surveys indicate a nearly 10 per-cent increase in the number of anglers a 2 percent increase in resident anglers and a 2 per-cent increase in days fished dur-ing this same time periodrdquo
A copy of the survey was provided to state biologist for review prior to publication and the Department of Fish and Game contacted the USFWS regarding the discrepancies As a result the final survey con-tains the following caveat
ldquoThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has expressed concerns regard-ing Alaska participation and trend estimates from the 2006 National Surveyrdquo
So why was the USFWS survey so wrong This was a national survey with state components The Alaska sam-ple size was relatively small probably too small and very likely the surveyors asked the wrong questions at the wrong time Information in the sur-vey was gathered by the US Census Bureau through tele-phone interviews conducted in the springtime and initially about 550 Alaska households participated Callers were asked
if they had already participated in hunting or fishing in 2006 at the time of the interview and were then categorized
Fish and Game data indi-cates about 175000 Alaska resi-dents are hunters
Bruce Bartley an informa-tion officer with Fish and Game pointed out that the number of people benefiting from hunting mdash eating wild game mdash is much larger than the number of hunt-ers particularly in some rural areas where a few hunters pro-vide lots of game for numerous residents in villages Sutherland echoed that sentiment
ldquoI share my game with friendsrdquo he said ldquoEverybody I know shares this stuff so itrsquos benefitting a bigger segment of the population than just the huntersrdquo
Riley Woodford is an information officer for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and editor of Alaska Fish and Wildlife News He can be reached at rileywoodfordalaskagov
Continued from Page 5
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
FORTYMILE Head out to Chicken RidgeContinued from Page 8
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Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
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By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM
GAME PROCESSING YOUR OWN MEAT BACK
Price includes cut amp wrap - incoming weight
bull BEAR SHEEP DEER or CARIBOU $103 lb bull MOOSE 80cent lb bull BEEF HOGS or BUFFALO 74cent lb
Breakfast Sausage amp Custom Grinding Available Custom Smoked Sausages Beginning in October
2400 DAVIS ROAD FAIRBANKS AK bull 456-3885 bull wwwsantassmokehousecom Open Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm bull Sat 10 am-5 pm
NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
The Paddle Sports Center at The Paddle Sports Center at
Open for FUN Open for FUN
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ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE
bull Fits All ATVrsquos 400 or larger bull Easily change from wheels to tracks in just minutes
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CAT TRACK Mud bull Snow bull Sand bull Bog Water
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EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
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FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
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B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
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from the statersquos intensified predator control program in the region last year Gross said
Not satisfied with how many wolves permit holders in the statersquos aerial wolf con-trol program were taking the department used a helicop-ter to find shoot and kill 84 wolves in the Fortymile region in March Adding in the num-ber of wolves taken by permit holders trappers and hunt-ers a total of 217 wolves were killed in the region last year
ldquoWith some of the wolf reductions from last winter
I think the herd stands a good chance to remain pret-ty stablerdquo Gross said ldquoWe donrsquot anticipate much of an increaserdquo
At the time of the census in early July most of the herd was located in the upper Sal-cha River country but they are likely scattered between the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks to the Canadian border by now Bentzen said Biologists were planning to conduct an aerial survey of the herd earlier this week to find the herd
The results of that survey are available on the Fortymile caribou hotline at 267-2310
ldquoWe donrsquot give specifics but it should be updated with a general idea of where the caribou might be availablerdquo Bentzen said
The most popular hunting spot for the herd is Chicken Ridge about 60 miles out the Taylor Highway The area is accessible by ATV and there is a network of trails that hunters can use to access the herd
ldquoAll along the Taylor High-way there are various spots people huntrdquo he said ldquoDefi-nitely the most traffic is on Chicken Ridgerdquo
The situation is much the same on the Steese Highway where Eagle and Twelvemile summits are the hotspots for hunters
ldquoPretty much wherever there is ATV access therersquos going to be other peoplerdquo Bentzen said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
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Become a member at creamersfieldorg
Our trails are always openFriends of Creamers
TROPHY WORTHY
Al GrilloThe Associated Press
Taxidermist Tim VandenToorn holds a red Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Game tag attached to a small grizzly bear hide at his shop in Palmer The tag certifies the hide as being legal The hide is one of several bought by Idaho fishing guide Ken Burkholder during the Alaska State Fish and Game hide horn and antler auction in Anchorage
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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1st Annual GREAT ALASKA
BIG MOOSE CONTEST
Under New Ownership ndash Jeff Masters owner
HARTER TAXIDERMY 3290 Peger Road Suite B Fairbanks
907-474-1009 bull Mon-Fri 9-6 bull Sat by appointment
Sam Cook Master Taxidermist State Regional amp National Champion
All Phases of Taxidermy Custom Mounts Available bull SCI Official Measurer
First place receives a free moose
shoulder mount from Harter Taxidermy Call for Details
9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM
GAME PROCESSING YOUR OWN MEAT BACK
Price includes cut amp wrap - incoming weight
bull BEAR SHEEP DEER or CARIBOU $103 lb bull MOOSE 80cent lb bull BEEF HOGS or BUFFALO 74cent lb
Breakfast Sausage amp Custom Grinding Available Custom Smoked Sausages Beginning in October
2400 DAVIS ROAD FAIRBANKS AK bull 456-3885 bull wwwsantassmokehousecom Open Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm bull Sat 10 am-5 pm
NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
The Paddle Sports Center at The Paddle Sports Center at
Open for FUN Open for FUN
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THIS IS NOT A THIS IS NOT A THIS IS NOT A FLOTATION DEVICE FLOTATION DEVICE FLOTATION DEVICE
ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE
bull Fits All ATVrsquos 400 or larger bull Easily change from wheels to tracks in just minutes
bull Tracks are 96 long x 12 wide We Have Them On Display Stop by for A Demonstration Video
Alaska FUN CENTER 1817 College Rd bull 452-3455 bull wwwalaskafuncentercom
CAT TRACK Mud bull Snow bull Sand bull Bog Water
11Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
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FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
13Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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14 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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Call 452-2739 for seating or information
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Doyon Limited and village corporations in interior Alaska own large tracts of land which are closed to entry without permission For further information contact Doyon Limited Lands and Natural Resources Department 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone (907) 459-2030
The airstrips depicted on the map at left are owned by Doyon Limited They are closed and abandoned Trespassers are subject to prosecution
The airstrips are located at Salmon Trout River in Sec 22 T21N R 28E FM at approx 66ordm 49rsquo 141ordm 40rsquo Black River in Sec 28 T10NR27 E FM at approx 65ordm 40rsquo 142ordm 10rsquo Alder Creek in Sec 30 T2NR 27 E FM at approx 64ordm 58rsquo 142ordm 18rsquo Slate Creek in Sec 22 T4S R 26E FM at approx 63ordm 32rsquo 142ordm30rsquo
For more information contact Doyon Limited 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Phone 907-459-2030
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1st Annual GREAT ALASKA
BIG MOOSE CONTEST
Under New Ownership ndash Jeff Masters owner
HARTER TAXIDERMY 3290 Peger Road Suite B Fairbanks
907-474-1009 bull Mon-Fri 9-6 bull Sat by appointment
Sam Cook Master Taxidermist State Regional amp National Champion
All Phases of Taxidermy Custom Mounts Available bull SCI Official Measurer
First place receives a free moose
shoulder mount from Harter Taxidermy Call for Details
9Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By Roxie DinstelCooperative Extension Service
Not only does wild game meat taste good itrsquos good for you
Game meat is typically lower in saturated fat and calories than domestic meat Wild animals in Alaska feed on wild plants shrubs and trees
that do not contain pesticides or herbicidesWhen game meat is cared for properly many
people prefer it instead of domestic meat because of its flavor lower fat content and lack of addi-tives such as antibiotics or growth hormones
This table compares the levels of protein fat cholesterol and calories in various types of game and domestically available meats
Wild game Itrsquos whatrsquos for dinner
SPECIES PROTEIN FAT CHOLESTEROL CALORIES (mg100g) (Kcal100g)Black bear 201 83 163Beef (lean ground) 177 207 75 264Beef (USDA choice) 220 65 72 180Buffalo 217 19 62 138Caribou 226 34 67 127Chicken 236 07 62 135Sitka black-tailed deer 215 27 18 117Elk 228 09 67 137Canada goose 228 71 84 161Sharptail grouse 238 07 105 142Mallard 231 20 140 152Moose 221 05 71 130Ptarmigan 248 23 20 128Rabbit 218 23 81 114Wigeon 226 21 131 153
100 grams = 35 ouncesNot available
John Hagen News-Miner
Charlie Rex talks about how to deal with moose neck meat at the Alaska Depart-ment of Fish and Gamersquos moose butcher-ing class at the Fairbanks Food Bank
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM
GAME PROCESSING YOUR OWN MEAT BACK
Price includes cut amp wrap - incoming weight
bull BEAR SHEEP DEER or CARIBOU $103 lb bull MOOSE 80cent lb bull BEEF HOGS or BUFFALO 74cent lb
Breakfast Sausage amp Custom Grinding Available Custom Smoked Sausages Beginning in October
2400 DAVIS ROAD FAIRBANKS AK bull 456-3885 bull wwwsantassmokehousecom Open Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm bull Sat 10 am-5 pm
NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom 3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 bull wwwbeaversportscom Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5 Summer Hours Mon-Sat 10-7 bull Sun 11-5
The Paddle Sports Center at The Paddle Sports Center at
Open for FUN Open for FUN
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THIS IS NOT A THIS IS NOT A THIS IS NOT A FLOTATION DEVICE FLOTATION DEVICE FLOTATION DEVICE
ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE ITrsquoS EVERYTHING ELSE
bull Fits All ATVrsquos 400 or larger bull Easily change from wheels to tracks in just minutes
bull Tracks are 96 long x 12 wide We Have Them On Display Stop by for A Demonstration Video
Alaska FUN CENTER 1817 College Rd bull 452-3455 bull wwwalaskafuncentercom
CAT TRACK Mud bull Snow bull Sand bull Bog Water
11Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
AFTAC
Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
YTA7
YTA2
YTA6
YTA3
YTA4
YTA1
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ImpactArea
FtGreely
WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
River
Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
13Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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14 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 Fairbanks Alaska 99709
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
NOTICE TO HUNTERSLarge Tracts of land along the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers areowned by Doyon Limited and Gana-arsquoYoo Limited Those
tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL
PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTINGPermission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is
granted to shareholders their descendants and in some cases
other local subsistence users Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
shareholders and their families are allowed to travel across Gana-
arsquoYoo Limited lands for such purposes without the need for prior
written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No
one is authorized to outfit guide or transport on our land
including shareholders
ENTRY ON ANY OF THESE PRIVATELY OWNED
LANDS CONSTITUTES TRESPASSCertain easements are reserved for the public in various locations
throughout private lands These easements are owned by the
corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific
purposes For detailed information about the location of
easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public
Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in
Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING
OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT
PERMITTED USES
For further information contact
Doyon Limited Gana-arsquoYoo Limited
1 Doyon Place Suite 300 3000 A Street Suite 417
Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Anchorage Alaska 99503
(907) 459-2031 1-888-656-1606 (FBKS)
TO DONATE MEAT PLEASE CONTACT
JOSEPHINE MALEMUTE AT 1-888-656-1606
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD
RESPECT YOURS
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NOTICE TO INTERIOR CARIBOU AND MOOSE
HUNTERS The 50-mile road that was built to access Pogo Gold Mine was authorized and completed under State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources permitting processes - Mine Permit ADL416949
Under this permit the Pogo Mine Access Road and Pogo Mine property is restricted to all public access The DNR permit further stipulates that use of the road for hunting andor transportation of hunters or hunting equipment is expressly prohibited
Pogo Mine wishes to respectfully remind interior hunters that the Pogo Mine Access Road was constructed for the sole use of industrial mine traffic and that the presence of persons automobiles four-wheelers or any other conveyances used in support of hunting activities shall constitute an act of Criminal Trespass under Alaska Statute 1146330(a)(1) While boat traffic on the Goodpaster River is not specifically restricted hunters may not exit their watercraft onto Pogo Mine property
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10 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Parts of two military training areas south of Delta Junction will be closed at different points in the hunting season for training exercises the US Army announced
In the Donnelly Training Area East 33-Mile Loop will be closed to hunting while the Donnelly Flats Donnelly Dome and Meadows road areas will remain open Some of those areas are open to hunting by permit only
Hunters should refer to Alaska Department of Fish and Game regu-lations and the Armyrsquos Outdoor Rec-reation Regulation Supplement
Donnelly Training Area West is closed to hunting but will re-open Aug 22 It will close again Sept 18
through Oct 20 for training exer-cises
The Yukon Training Area behind Eielson Air Force Base and the Tanana Flats Training Area south of the Tanana River will be open the entire season except for the impact areas
The Army cautioned hunters about entering impact areas
Unexploded munitions in those areas is a danger and the impact areas are closed to hunting and other recreational use
An increasing number of hunters and other recreational users have
entered restricted impact areas in recent years the Army stated in a press release Violators who enter impact areas will be cited the Army said
Army units remaining in Alaska will conduct required training events during August September and Octo-ber Closures for training are not expected to be as expansive as past years but could come up with little noticed based on mission require-ments
Anyone with additional questions about hunting or outdoor recreation on military training lands should call 361-6490 or visit the Army Web site at wwwusarakarmymilconser-vation
Some military training areas closed to huntingASK THE ARMY
Hunters with questions about hunting on military training lands should consult the Armyrsquos USARTRAK system to get the most current information about openings and closures The phone numbers are
bull Fort Wainwright 353-3181bull Fort Greely 873-3181bull See the map on Page 11
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EielsonAFB
AlphaImpactArea
Blair LakesImpact Area
SmallArms
SmallArms
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Stuart CreekImpact Area
Fairbanks
NorthPole
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Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
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EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
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Delta
River
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Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
Legend
Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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ATTENTION HUNTERS
LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
(907) 442-3301 bull wwwnanalandscom
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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SmallArms
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Stuart CreekImpact Area
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NorthPole
HardingLake
BlairLake
Parks Highw
ay
Richardson
Highway
Salchak
et Slough
TananaRiver
Tanana
River
DykeRange
Wood
Ri ver
Wood River
Chena Hot
Spring
sRoad
TFTA11
TFTA9
TFTA8
TFTA14
TFTA13
TFTA12
TFTA15
TFTA10
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WEST 1
3
4
2
2 1
3
4
EAST
Delta Junction
Alaska Highway
LittleDeltaRiver
Delta
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Delta
River
Fort Wainwright andDonnelly East ampWest
USARTRAK
The following is a sample menu of the USARTRAK phone access systemA)Welcome MessageB) Check in Please enter yourpermit number confirm number
C) Enter additional number if travelingin a group confirm numbers
D) Select area1-Fort Richardson2-Fort Wainwright3-Donnelly Training Area (formerlyFort Greely)
E) Choose an activity1-Big game hunting2-Small game hunting3-Fishing4-ORV use5-Trapping6-FirewoodChristmas tree cutting7-Other (all other activities not listed orrelated to the above such as birdingberry picking hiking)
F) Range closure message for area selectedG) You will be asked if you are entering thearea today or tomorrow (remember youcan sign in up to 24 hours in advance)
H) Enter the sub-unit of the area you plan toenter (this will vary depending on the postselected in step D)
I) Enter the number of days you plan to be inthe area (you must choose a numberbetween 1 and 25)
J) You have now completed the automatedcheck in Have a great Day
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Training Recreation Area
Off Limits
Post Boundary
USARTRAKPhone Access Numbers
Fairbanks AreaAnchorage AreaDelta JunctionEielson Area377 Exchange Use
353-3181384-3181873-3181353-3181384-3181
DONNELLYTRAININGAREARECREATIONAREA
TANANAFLATS TRAININGAREA
YUKON TRAININGAREA
This map is not for navigation It is for general reference only
This map is not for navigationIt is for general reference only
EASTWEST1) 33 Mile Loop Rec Area2) Jarvis West Rec Area3) Donnelly Dome Rec Area4) Meadows Road Rec Area
1) Winter Trail Rec Area2) Bennet Air Strip Rec Area3) Delta Creek Assault Strip4) Other
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
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PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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19Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Kurupa River Shainin Lake
For more information contact Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Land Department 3900 C Street Suite 801
Anchorage AK 99503-5963 907 339-6017
wwwASRCcomlandinfo
Large tracts of land on the Western and Central North Slope are owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Entry on these privately owned lands requires the consent of ASRC
Sport hunting and fishing are prohibited on ASRC lands
Within ASRC lands in the Central and Western Arctic are a number of gravel airstrips that are closed to public access Entry on the following airstrips requires the written consent of ASRC
AKULIK 69deg00rsquo02rdquoN 163deg26rsquo33rdquoW EAGLE CREEK 68deg40rsquo46rdquoN 162deg39rsquo13rdquoW KILLIK 68deg27rsquo15rdquoN 154deg17rsquo43rdquoW
TIGLIKPUK 68deg25rsquo25rdquoN 151deg27rsquo26rdquoW TULUGAK 68deg59rsquo36rdquoN 151deg11rsquo42rdquoW
These airstrips are subject to periodic surveillance by ASRC Trespassers will be prosecuted
Certain easements are reserved for the public in various locations on ASRC lands These easements are owned by ASRC and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes These
easements are reserved to allow access to lakes by float plane temporary overnight camping at specific 1 acre sites near the lake shores (not to exceed 24 hours) and to allow for trail access t o adjacent public lands Some specific areas that require the proper following of easements are
Elusive Lake Shainin Lake Chandler Lake Udurivik Lake Imiaknikpak Lake and Windy Lake Any deviation from easement stipulations will be considered trespass and is criminally punishable
under Alaska Statute1146330 Sport hunting and fishing are not allowed on these easements
You are highly encouraged to contact ASRC if you are planning a float trip on the Kukpowruk Kokolik Utukok Etivluk Okokmilaga Chandler Anaktuvuk Kurupa Killik or Colville Rivers
Each of these nonnavigable waterways have unique circumstances or restrictions that must be followed to prevent trespass In addition North Slope Borough Bureau of Land Management US Fish amp Wildlife Service andor National Park Service permits may also be required for operating on
adjacent public lands
It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permissions and permits to access these areas
NOTICE TO AIRMEN GUIDES OUTFITTERS RAFTERS amp SPORT HUNTERS
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Tulugak Airstrip Elusive Lake Killik Airstrip
Please respect our lands as we would respect yours
NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS
Contact Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd Land Manager 1603 College Road bull Fairbanks AK 99709
907-452-8119
Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Limited has enacted a RESTRICTED HUNTING POLICY on its Corporationrsquos privately-held lands The shaded areas around the Interior villages of Alatna Allakaket Hughes and Huslia are closed to all sports hunting Rights are granted to Krsquooyitlrsquootsrsquoina Ltd shareholders their descendants and other local subsistence users For subsistence access by non-Native local rural residents you must obtain a permit for sale at our Corporationrsquos Fairbanksrsquo office
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Hunters will apply from Nov 1 to Dec 31
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Here are two dates that Alaska hunters should mark on their calen-dars mdash Nov 1 and Dec 31
Those are the new opening and closing dates for the application peri-od for drawing and Tier II hunting permits for all big game species in
Alaska except for one nonresident brown bear hunt on Kodiak Island
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the change to one winter drawing permit application period for all resident hunters to make things less confusing for hunt-ers and cheaper for the department regulations program director Suzan Bowen in Anchorage said
In addition hunters will have more time mdash two months instead of one mdash to apply and more time to plan for their hunts she said
ldquoThere are several advantages to it for both us and the publicrdquo Bowen said of the new winter application period
For the last eight years the state had two application periods for draw-ing and Tier I and II permits There was a Nov 1 to Dec 5 winter applica-tion period for Dall sheep mountain goat Kodiak brown bear Koyukuk moose and some other moose hunts and there was a May 1-31 application period for all other permit hunts
The two different application
periods sometimes confused hunters many of whom applied for permits during both
Hunters are allowed to apply for only three hunts for any one species and the two application period sys-tem sometimes resulted in hunters applying for too many moose hunts
ldquoPeople would apply for a couple of moose hunts in the winter draw and a couple more in the spring draw and then get kicked out of the systemrdquo
State switches to one application period of permit hunts
Please see PERMIT Page 14
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PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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Call 452-2739 for seating or information
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Ahtna Incorporated
PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588 | Tel (907) 822-3476 | Fax (907) 822-3495 | wwwahtna-inccom
Before the Gold Rushes
This land was inhabited by the Ahtna Athabascan people
Before the Copper Mining
Before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
To this day the land is the heart and soul of the Ahtna people We treat our land fish and wildlife with the utmostrespect and it is this respect that has allowed our people to maintain the landsrsquo pristine nature We welcome visitors to our region and request they treat our land with respect leaving no trace so others may continue to enjoy all this land has to offer
The Copper Klutina Gulkana Tazlina and Nenana Rivers all run through Ahtna land The Denali Edgerton George Parks Glenn Richardson amp Tok Cut-off Highways also pass through Ahtna land
It is your responsibility to contact the appropriate State or Federal agency to determine legal hunting areas outside of Ahtna land Ahtna does not allow hunting on its land except for a special Bison permit and Predator ControlHunting A land crossing permit can be purchased to cross Ahtna lands to reach public lands in the area you would like to hunt No taking of any game is allowed while crossing Ahtna land with two exceptions
(1) Unit 13 Predator Control Permit - limited to wolf and you must hold a valid Predator ControlPermit from the State of Alaska and a valid Ahtna Permit (no charge) You must have both permits to take wolves on Ahtna land within Unit 13
(2) Predator Hunting Permit - All other predator hunting is considered by Ahtna to be sport hunting and a fee is required to take other predators on Ahtna land This includes the taking of brown bear black bear and coyote You must have a valid Ahtna Predator Hunting Permit in addition to all State required licenses tags or permits to take bear or coyote on Ahtna land There are associated permit fees per predator per person
You must notify the Ahtna Land Department of any taking after your animal has been reported tothe State
Land-Use Permits are required on all Ahtna land Permits with associated fees are issued for land crossing access fishing camping sand gravel and bison hunting Permits areavailable in person at MP-115 Richardson Highway or by mail atAhtna Land Department PO Box 649 Glennallen AK 99588
Maps amp additional information are available online at httpahtnalandsgooglepagescomWe ask and thank you for your cooperation
Before the Highways
Ahtna Region
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
3480 College Rd bull 479-2494 Fairbanks Alaska 99709
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19Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
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first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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analyst programmer Kurt Kamletz said
The winter drawing period will give all hunters the same amount of time to plan their hunts
Previously hunters who applied in the winter hunt had about five extra months to plan their hunts compared to hunters who applied for permits in May
ldquoApplicants in the winter hunt found out in Febru-ary if they got a permit and applicants in the May period didnrsquot find out until Julyrdquo Bowen said
ldquoIf there are a limited number of transporters for a certain hunt or area a lot of times they were booked by the time people in the May application period found out they got a permitrdquo
Under the new system hunters will now whether they get a permit sometime in February or March Bowen said
There are actually two deadlines for submitting per-mit applications
The cut-off for submitting paper applications will be
Dec 15 while those submit-ting applications online will have until Dec 31
Starting next year the deadline for submitting paper applications will be Nov 31 while hunters applying online will have until Dec 31 It takes longer to process paper applications explained Bowen
ldquoWersquore trying to get people to do it electronicallyrdquo she said ldquoIt just increases effi-ciency across the boardrdquo
The Department of Fish and Game receives about 25000 to 30000 permit applications each year and the average number of hunts applied for on each applica-
tion is three or four Bowen said
That translates to about 100000 hunt applications she said
Currently about 50 per-cent of hunters apply online and department officials would like to see that number go higher
Applying online also bene-fits hunters by alerting them if they make a mistake that would result in the disqualifi-cation of a paper application such as applying for the same hunt twice or applying for too many hunts for the same spe-cies Bowen said
ldquoIf they do something wrong online they get a little window that says lsquoYou canrsquot do thatrsquordquo she said
ldquoIt helps people from mak-ing common mistakes that could get them kicked out of the drawingrdquo
Switching to just one appli-cation period also saves the department money because the agency doesnrsquot have to process two sets of applica-tions a time and staff con-suming job Kamletz said
Contact outdoors editor Tim Mowry at 459-7587
PERMIT APPLICATIONS
Here are the dates for the statersquos new application period for drawing and Tier I and II hunts
bull Nov 1 mdash Application period opens
bull Dec 15 mdash Deadline for paper applications
bull Dec 31 mdash Deadline for online applications
PERMIT An increase in online applicationsContinued from Page 12
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15Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
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location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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15Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Hunters stalking black bears in must now have a black bear harvest ticket similar to a moose or caribou harvest ticket
The statewide change was made starting this regulatory year in an attempt to figure out how many black bear hunters there are in Alaska Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said
Requiring a harvest ticket for black bears will give game
managers a better idea of hunt-er effort Young said
ldquoTherersquos no way to capture that information without a har-vest ticketrdquo he said
The state has a good handle on the harvest of black bears because hunters must have the hides of the bears they shoot sealed by the Department of Fish and Game in most parts of the state Young said
Black bear harvest tickets will be available anywhere hunting licenses are sold and
also online at the Department of Fish and Gamersquos Web site
The black bear harvest tick-ets will be similar to a moose harvest ticket Hunters will be asked where they hunted how many days they hunted what commercial services were used what kind of transportation was used whether or not they killed the date of kill if successful and the sex of the animal
ldquoIt will give us a lot of infor-mation on bear hunters that are unsuccessfulrdquo Young said
Harvest tickets now required for black bears
With grouse numbers down throughout most of the Interior the fall fore-cast isnrsquot good for game bird hunters
Results of ruffed grouse counts this spring indicate the species is approaching the low point in its seven- to 10-year cycle biologist Don Young with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said
ldquoWersquore not as low as we were in the previous low but wersquore approaching itrdquo Young said ldquoI expect next year wersquoll be at the low
The grouse population cycle follows that of snow-shoe hares which also fluc-tuates on a seven- to 10-year cycle When the number of snowshoe hares goes up the number of grouse goes down because the increase in
hares produces an increase in grouse predators such as lynx fox golden eagles goshawks and great-horned owls
The snowshoe hare cycle peaked in most of the Inte-rior last year and there are still lots of predators around as a result Young said
Fairbanks grouse guru Jim McCann author of ldquoUpland Hunting In Alas-kardquo concurred with Youngrsquos assessment of Interior game bird populations
ldquoThis year is not going to be a good year for the casual bird hunterrdquo said McCann who does not fall into that category ldquoThe casual hunt-er wants to drive down the road and shoot 30 of them That ainrsquot going to hap-penrdquo
mdash Tim Mowry
Forecast dismal for grouse
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PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
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16 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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LANDS CLOSED TO HUNTING The shaded areas on this map generally show the private lands owned by NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC (NANA) Access to these lands for hunting and fishing is allowable only by NANA shareholders and their families and by non-shareholders of NANA who have been permanent residents of the NANA region for at least 5 years and who receive a permit from NANA Other allowable uses of NANA lands require a permit Detailed maps of NANA lands further information regarding allowable uses and permits may be obtained from
NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION INC LAND DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 49 KOTZEBUE ALASKA 99752
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
For the seventh year in a row the US Army Corps of Engineers will host a hunt for the Paralyzed Veterans of America on the Chena Flood Control Project in North Pole
This yearrsquos PVA hunt is scheduled for Sept 11-15 project manager John Schaake said
The details had yet to be worked out at press time but Schaake expects four or five paralyzed hunters to partici-pate in this yearrsquos hunt The US Army Corps of Engineers has played host to 24 PVA
hunters from the Lower 48 and Alaska in the seven years of the hunt three of which have successfully bagged a moose
The hunters use wheel-chair-friendly hunting blinds built by the Borealis Kiwanis Club several years ago and are situated in different spots on the Flood Control Project
This yearrsquos hunt was sched-uled later in the season in hopes of cooler weather and more moose activity Schaake said
As in past years Schaake asks hunters to avoid hunt-ing on Corps land north of the Chena River near Moose
Creek Dam before and during the PVA hunt to increase the odds for disabled hunters
ldquoThere are only a limited number of bulls potentially available each year to the PVA guys and wersquod like to give them the greatest chance possible to harvest a bullrdquo Schaake said ldquoWersquove had remarkable sup-port of this request
ldquoWersquove found that most hunters wouldnrsquot dream of hunting in the area after they find out about the hunt and many end up volunteering to help the PVA guysrdquo he said
As a way of showing its appreciation for the opportu-nity afforded to PVA mem-
bers by the Corps the PVA donated a Hunt Master hunt-ing blind to the Chena Flood Control Project two years ago The Hunt Master is a portable hunting blind that raises 18 feet off the ground with an electricalhydraulic scissor lift The unit is self-contained on a trailer that can be towed by a truck to be moved Last year was the first year the Hunt Master was used
The PVA hunt has become a passion for Schaake who goes out of his way to make the hunt as comfortable and memorable for the hunters as possible
ldquoThe PVA hunters always rave about the amount of com-munity support they receive from the minute the come off the planerdquo Schaake said ldquoAll say that hunting moose in Alaska is a dream come true Having an opportunity to see
and hunt moose in our state is beyond their wildest imagina-tion Their success comes from just getting to and being in the field with a realistic chance of punching a harvest ticketrdquo
This year the Corps built bunkhouses for the PVA hunt-ers to sleep in so they wonrsquot have to stay in hotels in Fair-banks and be transported to and from North Pole each day
Lt Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks has donated sev-eral confiscated trophies and mounts to hang on the walls of the bunkhouse Schaake said
ldquoItrsquos going to be kind of a neat little placerdquo he said ldquoItrsquoll be their own hunting lodge with a porch that they can hang out on instead of hang-ing out in the Corps officesrdquo
Contact staff Writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587
Army Corp gives disabled hunters a shot at moose
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17Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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19Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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TO DONATE MEAT TO THE ELDERS NUTRITION PROGRAM CONTACT THE TRIBAL OFFICE AT (907) 476-7124
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
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Recipes courtesy of Sharon McLeod-Everette
MOOSE OR CARIBOU TONGUE
This is perfect while still in hunting camp
Put tongue or heart in a large pot cover with cold water and add 14 cup pick-ling spices 14 cup salt and 14 cup either cider (pre-ferred) or white vinegar Place lid on pot (or use tin foil) and soak in the shade (ideally it will be in the low 40s which is a good refrigera-tor temperature) for a day or two Drain water (some pick-ling spices will partially stay) replace with fresh water add a couple bay leaves 1 table-spoon or so of peppercorns and 1 tablespoon pickling spices Bring to a boil then simmer for a couple hours Allow to cool
TongueWhen cool peel off the out-
er skin Slice thinly add salt and pepper and eat Makes excellent sandwiches Also is a good hors drsquo oeuvre served with a hot Chinese mustard
HeartServe either hot or cold
This is good in place of a roast and it can be diced and added to a stew Sliced it makes excellent cold sand-wiches add sweet pickle rel-ish and mustard or horserad-ish to the sandwich If you have lettuce great If not itrsquos good without
I usually have a pressure
cooker with me in hunting camp as it has a locking lid mdash perfect for knocking around in the woods I donrsquot cook the heart and tongue under pressure because it takes too much cold water to bring the temperature down quickly enough If you hap-pen to be near a source of cold water though go ahead and cook under pressure using the weight guidelines for length of time and take care not to overfill the cooker
Fresh meat fresh taste
Please see DINNER Page 19
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As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
Please see DRAW Page 20
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
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Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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As just about any hunter who has seriously pursued a moose in Alaska will tell you therersquos no such thing as a guaranteed moose hunt
Of the approximately 25000 hunters who take to the Alaska wilds each hunt-ing season in hopes of bring-ing home a moose to put in the freezer only about one in about every four is suc-cessful
The average success rate for moose hunters in Alaska is roughly 25 percent according to Fairbanks area biologist Don Young with the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
So how do you increase your odds of getting a moose
Well it might mean camp-ing out for 24 hours in 40-degree below temperatures like a number of hunters did this in January to get a per-mit for the Minto Flats Man-agement Area winter hunt
Or it might mean forking over a few bucks to apply for
a drawing permit and getting lucky enough to draw one
Here are the hunts in the Interior that have the highest success rates based on statis-tics compiled by the Depart-ment of Fish and Game
Success is defined as the percentage of hunters who actually reported hunting
bull Hunt number DM792bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 100
percentbull Location Delta Bison
Range in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Odds of getting a per-mit 41 percent
Yoursquove got to be 16 or younger to apply for this hunt but if you draw a per-mit itrsquos like taking candy from a baby
Last year all 10 hunters who drew a permit reported taking a moose In 2007 nine of 10 permit holders bagged a moose all of them cows
Permit holders can take a spikefork bull a bull with
an antler spread of 50 inches or better or a cow that is not accompanied by a calf
The hunt is split up into the first three weekends in September and each permit holder is assigned a four-day hunting period
Delta area biologist Steve DuBois reports that he has seen as many as 50 moose on the bison range at one time during the hunting season
Last year 244 hunters applied for the 10 permits
bull Hunt numbers RM775 and RM785
bull Hunt type Registration permit
bull Location Minto Flats Management Area in Game Management Unit 20B
bull Season Sept 1-25 for RM775 and Jan 10-Feb 28 for RM785
bull Success rate 79 per-cent in fall hunt 74 percent in winter hunt
bull Odds of getting a per-mit Depends how long yoursquore willing to stand in line may-be at 40 below
Yoursquoll have to stand in line for a day or two to get a registration permit for either the fall or winter registration permit hunts for ldquoany mooserdquo in the Minto Flats Manage-ment Area but therersquos a good chance your patience will be rewarded
ldquoAny mooserdquo means just that Hunters who receive a permit can shoot bulls cows cows accompanied by calves or calves
Last year the success rate in the fall hunt was 79 per-cent for hunters who went afield The state issued 120 permits and 107 hunters reported hunting with a har-vest of 84 moose
In 2007 the success rate was 69 percent
The success rate in the winter hunt was slightly low-er at 74 percent with 76 hunt-ers harvesting 56 moose
In the winter hunt the state issued 97 permits 74 hunters reported hunting and 44 moose were harvested
The fall hunt runs from Sept 1 to Sept 25 and the
winter hunt opens Jan 10 and closes Feb 28
Permits are issued in August and January in Fair-banks Minto and Nenana on a first-come first-serve basis The line starts forming out-side the Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks about 24 hours before permits are issued
The Minto Flats hunt has just about everything a hunt-er is looking for Young said
ldquoAny moose a lot of moose a long seasonrdquo he said
bull Hunt number DM771 bull Hunt type Drawing
permit bull 2008 success rate 75
percentbull Location Wood River
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Sept 1-25 bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 467 percentOnly four out of the 10
hunters who drew permits last year reported hunting
Best shot at getting a moose means drawing the right permit
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
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2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
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Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
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21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
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and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
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By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
13254463-8-7-09HE
bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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SWEET amp SOUR MOOSE STEW
2 pounds moose meat1 tablespoon butter or oil1 teaspoon salt1 cup onion chopped1 cup water1 clove garlic1 8-ounce can tomato
sauce12 cup ketchup12 cup vinegar12 cup brown sugar1 tablespoon prepared
mustardAbout 1 quart veggies
(carrots spuds corn pep-pers clean out the fridge)
1 small can crushed pine-apple
Brown meat in butter in a
large Dutch oven
Add salt chopped onion and cook until light brown Add water cover and simmer for one hour
Stir in garlic tomato sauce ketchup vinegar brown sugar and mustard Cut veggies in chunks add to meat and cook till tender Add small can crushed pine-apple
After combining all the ingredients throw into a crockpot on low for 4 to 6 hours (or simmer on stove top for same length of time)
Serves 8 if not too hungry 4 if really hungry
From the stove of Larry the ex-crane operator and borrowed by Sharon McLeod-Everette
LENTIL amp GAME STEW
1 16-ounce bag lentils14 16-ounce bag barley
1 can whole kernel corn1 can green peas1 can green beans1 can diced stewed toma-
toes1 small can spicy V-8 juice1 to 2 pounds stew meat
(moose or caribou) cut into 1-inch squares or smaller pieces
1 tablespoon Worcester-shire sauce
2 teaspoon oregano2 teaspoon basilbig pinch of parsley1 chopped onion2 cloves minced garlic1-2 tablespoons olive oilsalt and pepper to tasteoptional 14 cup juice
from bread amp butter pickle stackers or 14 cup lemon juice (helps to reduce gas the next day)
Sauteacute onion and garlic
in olive oil add meat when
onion is translucentCook for about 5 minutes
over medium-high heat then add all remaining ingredi-ents Cook until lentils are soft
Can be served as is or over rice
Serves 6-8 people
PRESSURE-COOKED BARBECUE BEAR
5 lb bear roast2 large onions chopped6-10 cloves garlic chopped1 tablespoon olive oil12 teaspoon each oregano
and basil14 cup parsley flakes2 cups of your favorite
barbecue sauce OR 1 cup cat-sup 14 cup vinegar 14 cup Worcestershire sauce and 12 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
Sauteacute onions garlic and celery in olive oil until onions are translucent
Add the bear roast and brown on all sides Add spices barbecue sauce and water
Carrots and turnips are an excellent addition to this concoction
Pressure cook according to your cookerrsquos directions for pork usually 15-18 minutes per pound for well-done
If substituting moose or caribou cook for 12-15 min-utes per pound for medium Let the pressure drop of its own accord (about 15 min-utes)
Serve with rice potatoes or macaroni DO NOT fill cooker over 23 full
Note Bear meat can con-tain trichinosis hence the recommendation for cooking to well-done
DINNER Moose stew bear roast fresh from the hunt to the tableContinued from Page 17
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in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
13254463-8-7-09HE
bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
ALASKA OUTDOOR COUNCIL Dedicated to
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23Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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20 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
in this any-bull hunt in the moose-rich Wood River coun-try but three of them got moose
A total of 214 hunters applied for 10 permits Sea-son is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM770bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location FerryHealy
area in Game Management Unit 20A
bull SeasonSept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 758 percentThis any-bull drawing per-
mit hunt in the easily accessi-ble Ferry and Healy area east
of the Wood River attracted 924 applicants for 70 permits last year
Of the 52 hunters who reported hunting 30 got a moose for a success rate of 58 percent Season is Sept 1-25
bull Hunt number DM766bull Hunt type Muzzleload-
er drawing permitbull 2008 success rate 58
percentbull Location Wood River
in Game Management Unit 20A
bull Season Nov 1-30bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 5034 percentThe chances of getting a
moose in this winter any-bull muzzleloader hunt in the central Tanana Flats around the Wood River were about
the same as drawing a per-mit Only 149 hunters put in for the 75 permits and 28 of the 48 hunters who hunted bagged a bull for a success rate of 58 percent
bull Hunt number DM790bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percentbull Location Delta Junc-
tion Management Area in Game Management Unit 20D
bull Season Sept 5-15bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 134 percentOnly a handful of draw-
ing permits are issued for this hunt near Delta Junction and hunters who get permits are limited to shooting moose with an antler spread of 50 inches or bigger or with four brow tines
If you get a permit chances
are good you will get a moose and it will be a big one
The success rate for the hunt in the past 10 years is about 70 percent biologist Steve DuBois said
Last year the state issued 26 permits 19 hunters report-ed hunting and 10 moose were killed for a success rate of 53 percent
In 2007 eight of the 10 hunters who drew a permit bagged a big bull
ldquoTherersquos lots of moose very little competition between hunters and good accessrdquo DuBois said
Last year 746 hunters applied for the 26 permits that were issued
bull Hunt number DM773bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 53
percent
bull Location Eastern por-tion of Game Management Unit 20A between Delta Creek and the Delta River
bull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 133 percentLess half the hunters who
drew a permit for this any-bull hunt in unit 20A actually used it
Only 19 of the 50 permit holders reported hunting and 10 took a moose for a suc-cess rate of 53 percent There were 376 applicants for the 50 permits
bull Hunt number DM772bull Hunt type Drawing
permitbull 2008 success rate 40
percentbull Location Little Delta
Riverbull Season Sept 1-25bull Odds of getting a per-
mit 75 percentThe odds for getting a per-
mit in this hard-to-access any-bull hunt is higher than the odds of getting a moose Three out of every four hunt-ers who applied mdash 375 out of 500 mdash got a permit but only 141 reported hunting
They took 57 bulls for a success rate of 40 percent
DRAW Want to bag the big one Make sure you get the right hunting permitContinued from Page 18
Hospice of theTanana Valley
2001 Gillam Way 474-0311
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
1335
4013
-8-7
-09H
E
TO DONATE MEAT TO THE ELDERS NUTRITION PROGRAM CONTACT THE TRIBAL OFFICE AT (907) 476-7124
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
ALASKA FUN CENTER wwwalaskafuncentercom
1817 College Rd bull 452-3455
Come see the Baja 500 Winner Fuel-injected 750cc V twin engine
Selected as the winner by the US Army Special Operation Command after extensive evaluation comparison
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THIS IS NO ORDINARY DAY
Brow-Tine Taxidermy LLC
by Rich amp Cheryl Hamilton 488-4778 brow-tinegcinet
Make It LastmdashInsist On The Skill And Experience
Of An Award-Winning Taxidermist
bull Competition Quality In Every Mount
bull Game Heads - Life Size - Pedestals - Horn Mounts
bull Unsurpassed Customer Service
Now Available ldquoWilderness Taxidermyrdquo
3-disc DVD set with MUST-HAVE trophy
field care instructions
Our 16th year serving Interior Alaska
22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
13254463-8-7-09HE
bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
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23Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Regulation book error for game unit 25C
There was a snafu in the regulation book in Game Management Unit 25C north of Fairbanks that pertains to nonresident moose hunters
The regulation book states the nonresident moose sea-son in the unit is open from Sept 5-25 The season for nonresidents is actually Sept 5-15
Cow harvest in FMA drops
A regulation change that prohibits archery hunters from shooting a cow accom-panied by a calf produced a drastic drop in success rates in the Fairbanks Manage-ment Area last hunting sea-son
The success rate for bow-hunters in the FMA which basically encompasses a circle around residential Fairbanks from Fox to Ester to North Pole last year dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent
ldquoYou canrsquot shoot a cow with a calf and you canrsquot shoot a calfrdquo Fairbanks area biologist Don Young said explaining the lower success rates in 2008 ldquoThat really reduced the number of ani-mals that were availablerdquo
The drop in success rates came even though the state cut the number of permits it issued in half mdash from 151 to 75 Only 14 of the 61 hunters who reported hunting took a moose
In 2007 42 of the 124 hunters who reported hunt-ing bagged a moose
Macomb caribou harvest increases
As expected the harvest of Macomb caribou nearly doubled last year as a result of a change that allowed motorized access for the final two days of the season
Hunters killed 44 caribou in the unit 20D registration permit hunt last year com-pared to 27 in 2007
The same regulation is in place for this yearrsquos hunt
because the herd is still estimated at just over 1000 animals which is above the management objective
BOW workshop later this month
Itrsquos not too late for women interested in learning how to hunt to do so before moose season opens
The Alaska Department
of Fish and Gamersquos 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Wom-an in Alaska Workshop is scheduled for Aug 21-23 at Lost Lake Boy Scout Camp Mile 306 Richardson High-way
Designed primarily for women BOW workshops are an opportunity for anyone 18 years of age or older who is interested in learning out-door skills
More than 40 hands-on
classes are scheduled during the weekend workshop Reg-istration can also be mailed to ADFampG attention Nancy Sisinyak Division of Sport Fish 1300 College Road Fairbanks AK 99701 Regis-trations cannot be accepted over the phone
For additional informa-tion contact Nancy Sisinyak BOW coordinator at 459-7346
ADVICE FOR HUNTERSBEFORE you go lsquohuntingrsquo you should consider a GIFT CERTIFICATE
to SILVER GULCH for your SIGNIFICANT OTHER It will make up forA) coming home empty-handed
B) the mess in the garage after your successful tripc) the lsquo99 days of moose burgerrsquo to come
ALL HUNTING CAMP MISDEEDS FORGIVEN (or at least some of them) in exchange for an evening out with fellow lsquohunting widowsrsquo Pistachio-encrusted halibut with rissotto that didnlsquot require $500 in gas to catch Hand-cut steaks that havenrsquot been dragged through a muskeg swamp in the rain Hand-made desserts never freeze-dried
all of it in a warm inviting environment free of mosquitos wood-smoke and bad campfire jokes
OKTOBERFEST IS COMINGSEPT 18th amp 19th from 700-1030pm
in the SILVER GULCH BEER GARDEN
first tap of the legendary Oktoberfest brew live music from the Alaska Blaskapelle Polka Band mingle with friends around the bonfire
Call 452-2739 for seating or information
Get out your lederhosen itrsquos Oktoberfest time oy oy oy
SILVER GULCH Brewing and BottlingOPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK in Scenic Downtown Fox
21Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
Eric EngmanNews-Miner
Waterfowl season starts Sept 1 but have your permits in order All waterfowl hunters 16 or older must have a federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp and an Alaska Waterfowl Con-servation Stamp Log on to wwwwildlifealaskagovindexcfmadfg=waterfowlhuntingrequirements for a list of requirements and waterfowl hunting information
HUNTINGIn brief
1335
4013
-8-7
-09H
E
TO DONATE MEAT TO THE ELDERS NUTRITION PROGRAM CONTACT THE TRIBAL OFFICE AT (907) 476-7124
PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
ALASKA FUN CENTER wwwalaskafuncentercom
1817 College Rd bull 452-3455
Come see the Baja 500 Winner Fuel-injected 750cc V twin engine
Selected as the winner by the US Army Special Operation Command after extensive evaluation comparison
S0 Com ordered 1600 Kawasaki Teryxs
503541
53-8-7
- 09HE
THE THE THE NEW NEW NEW
TERYX TERYX TERYX
16354025-8-7-09HE
THIS IS NO ORDINARY DAY
Brow-Tine Taxidermy LLC
by Rich amp Cheryl Hamilton 488-4778 brow-tinegcinet
Make It LastmdashInsist On The Skill And Experience
Of An Award-Winning Taxidermist
bull Competition Quality In Every Mount
bull Game Heads - Life Size - Pedestals - Horn Mounts
bull Unsurpassed Customer Service
Now Available ldquoWilderness Taxidermyrdquo
3-disc DVD set with MUST-HAVE trophy
field care instructions
Our 16th year serving Interior Alaska
22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
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bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
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ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR LANDS AS WE WOULD RESPECT YOURS
NOTICE TO HUNTERS Large Tracts of land along the Lower Yukon River are owned by Doyon Limited
and Deloycheet Inc Those tracts are generally depicted on the map below
THESE LANDS ARE CLOSED TO ALL GENERAL PUBLIC USES INCLUDING SPORT HUNTING Permission to hunt and for other uses on Doyon Limited lands is granted to shareholders their
descendants and in some cases other local subsistence users Deloycheet shareholders who are Natives or descendants of Natives (as defined in ANCSA) and members of their immediate family who are also Natives or descendants of Natives are authorized to hunt trap fish or camp and to
travel across Deloycheet Inc lands for such purposes without the need for prior written permission from the corporationrsquos board of directors No one is authorized to outfit guide or
transport on our land including shareholders Otherwise entry on any of these privately owned lands requires the written consent of the landowner Certain easements are reserved for the public
in various locations throughout private lands These easements are owned by the corporations and are reserved for public use for limited specific purposes For detailed information about the
location of easements contact the Bureau of Land Managementrsquos Public Information Office in Fairbanks at (907) 474-2251 or in Anchorage at (907) 251-5960
SPORT HUNTING FISHING AND PROCESSING OF GAME ON OR FROM EASEMENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED USES
For further information contact Doyon Limited Deloycheet Inc 1 Doyon Place Suite 300 PO Box 228 Fairbanks Alaska 99701 Holy Cross Alaska 99602 (907) 459-2030 (907) 476-7177
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22 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
By TIM MOWRYtmowrynewsminercom
Alaska Wildlife Troopers refer to it as ldquoknocking the wheels offrdquo
ldquoThey take all four legs off they take the backstraps and they walk awayrdquo Sgt Scott Quist with the Fairbanks detachment of wildlife troopers said ldquoThey leave the neck the brisket the ribs and very often the tenderloins
ldquoI betcha Irsquove seen 200 of those in my career veteran trooper said ldquoItrsquos most common with caribourdquo
In trooper speak itrsquos called ldquofailure to salvage all edible meat of a big game animalrdquo and it will bag you a ticket mdash and possibly jail time mdash if you get caught And therersquos a decent chance yoursquoll get caught
Failure to salvage all edible meat is one of the most com-mon hunting violations wildlife
troopers see every year and itrsquos one they take seriously Quist said
ldquoTherersquos not a mountain around that we wonrsquot climb to make a waste caserdquo he said
Hunting laws in Alaska were written to emphasize the sal-vage of meat not the trophy value of an animal Depending on how much meat a hunter leaves on an animal determines whether he or she is cited for failure to salvage or wanton
waste according to Lt Lantz Dahlke with Fairbanks wildlife troopers Wanton waste is a more serious offense than fail-ure to salvage
ldquoYou donrsquot have to worry if we come in there and have a handful of meat but if I come in there and trim a bag of meat off thatrsquoll get you a citationrdquo Dahlke said
Failure to salvage the hind-quarter of a big game animal or the breast meat of wild birds
including waterfowl carries a mandatory sentence of seven days in jail and a $2500 fine he said
ldquoTechnically if you shoot a teal and waste the meat of the breasts you can go to jailrdquo Dahlke said
While some hunters leave meat behind because they donrsquot want to expend the effort of removing neck or rib meat oth-ers simply donrsquot know better
ldquoThe two main reasons peo-ple waste meat is people donrsquot have the knowledge (about butchering an animal) and they donrsquot know what theyrsquore getting intordquo Quist said ldquoThey shoot an animal thatrsquos too far away and realize when this truck-size animal is down that they have to pack it out on their backrdquo
Hunters who have never butchered a moose caribou or Dall sheep should talk to expe-rienced hunters who have or check out a video produced by
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game entitled ldquoField Care of Big Gamerdquo which takes them through the process of butcher-ing a moose step by step
Not only will it save you a ticket yoursquoll probably bring home more meat
ldquoAn inexperienced hunter may not know where the ten-derloin is and they donrsquot want to get into the guts (to get the ribs)rdquo Quist said ldquoIf you take the four quarters and back-straps the reality is yoursquove got 75 percent of the meat They think thatrsquos good enough and itrsquos notrdquo
On a moose waste can add up because the animal is so large A big moose can have more than 100 pounds of neck meat alone and itrsquos not always easy to cut off Hunters also need to take care when remov-ing the hindquarters
Troopers Cut it close when it comes to meat salvageCLEAN CUT
Hunters must salvage all edible meat off all big game animals in Alaska except for fall black bears and grizzly bears as well as small game birds That includes
bull All of the neck meatbull All of the brisket ie chest meatbull All of the meat of the ribsbull Front quarters as far as the distal joint of the kneebull Hindquarters as far as the distal joint of the hockbull All of the meat along the backbone between the
front and hindquarters ie backstrap and tenderloins
Please see HARVEST Page 23
13254463-8-7-09HE
bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
ALASKA OUTDOOR COUNCIL Dedicated to
Your Hunting Headquarters Drums Sold and Filled AV Gas Gasoline Diesel Fuel Heating Fuel Case and bulk lubricants Racing Gas Poly Drums Can Be Used For Fuel storage Water supply Food storage Supply caches Shipping containers
1135
4036
-8-7
-09H
E
8am-530pm Mon-Fri Sat 9am-Noon
418 Illinois Street 456-7600
Poly Drums
23Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
13254463-8-7-09HE
bull Protecting hunting fishing and trapping since 1955 bull Conserving fish and wildlife on the sustained yield principle bull Common use of Alaskarsquos resources bull Professional scientific state management bull Safe legal and ethical exercise of the right to keep and bear arms
Join today Contact 455-4262 wwwalaskaoutdoorcouncilorg or aocalaskanet
Mail-In Membership Coupon Name__________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________Email_________________________ 1 year individual membership $25 Mail to Alaska Outdoor Council 310 K Street Suite 200 Fairbanks AK 99707
ALASKA OUTDOOR COUNCIL Dedicated to
Your Hunting Headquarters Drums Sold and Filled AV Gas Gasoline Diesel Fuel Heating Fuel Case and bulk lubricants Racing Gas Poly Drums Can Be Used For Fuel storage Water supply Food storage Supply caches Shipping containers
1135
4036
-8-7
-09H
E
8am-530pm Mon-Fri Sat 9am-Noon
418 Illinois Street 456-7600
Poly Drums
23Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
ldquoWhere people leave it is cutting the neck meat and hindquarters offrdquo Dahlke said ldquoThey donrsquot trim the neck real well and they donrsquot trim closely along the hips and backbonerdquo
If possible Dahlke advises hunters to take the entire neck bone out with them
ldquoTake it home where you can clean it up in the kitchen or garage and donrsquot have to worry about bugsrdquo he said
Itrsquos rare that hunters leave behind a whole carcass but it happens
ldquoWhere wersquoll find wanton waste cases a lot of times is when we have shoot through cases on caribou or mooserdquo Dahlke said referring to what happens when a bullet passes through one animal and hits another standing behind it ldquoThe hunter panics and says lsquoWhat do I do nowrsquo and they salvage the one they shot at and leave the other one Thatrsquos where we find our worst waste cases They leave the whole animal behindrdquo
In the event of a shoot through or any violation for that matter Dahlke said the best thing a hunter can do is notify troopers of the mistake
ldquoJust call usrdquo Dahlke said ldquoWe tell every hunter that
comes in that we will be more lenient in our sentencing rec-ommendation if they call us and let us know whatrsquos going on and salvage the meat We want to see that meat salvagedrdquo
If troopers do encounter a
hunter in the field who com-mitted a violation they wonrsquot cut them any slack even if the hunter claims he or she planned to report the violation when they got back to town Hunters should contact troopers imme-
diately via cell or satellite phone if they do something wrong
Other common violations
troopers encounter includebull Shooting sub-legal ani-
mals such as a Dall sheep that does not quite have full curl horns or a 48-inch moose in a 50-inch-only area and shooting the wrong sex animal ie a cow moose instead of a bull
bull Failure to validate a har-vest ticket or hunting without a license Hunters must notch their harvest ticket or permit immediately and at the site they killed the animal not back in camp when theyrsquore done butch-ering the animal or at the truck when they get it out of the field Hunters are required to have their licenses and harvest tick-ets and permits in their posses-sion when they are hunting
bull Shooting on from or across the roadway
bull Hunting during a closed season or in a closed area
The hunting regulations in some areas can be confus-ing and hunters need to know where they are hunting Dahlke recommends using a GPS to make sure yoursquore in the spot you think you are
bull Transporting antlers from the field before meat
It doesnrsquot matter whether itrsquos a camp airstrip or trailhead all the meat has to be packed out before the antlers or horns
HARVESTContinued from Page 22
There are a few little things hunters need to remember when it comes to butchering big game in Alaska
Keep it cleanbull You can never have too many blue tarps
Be sure to pack lots of them to put the meat on after it is removed from an animal If for some unfathomable reason you donrsquot have a blue tarp lay some spruce boughs down build a rack with logs to lay the meat on or find some dry grass on which to set the meat Never no matter what place the meat on dirt or sand
bull When skinning an animal peel the hide back as you go to avoid getting hair on the meat You can use the skinned hide as a tarp too but be careful because it can be slippery
bull Tuck a tarp or game bag under the front and back quarters as you prepare to separate them so they fall on that instead of the ground
bull Use quality game bags The heavy cotton bags that resemble giant laundry bags are more expensive than the cheaper cheesecloth-type game bags but itrsquos worth it in the long run They donrsquot rip nearly as easily and they are bigger
bull Keep game bags as clean and blood-free as possible to avoid attracting flies and other bugs
bull Immediately rinse off any rumen bile or urine that gets on the meat
bull Do not puncture any organs such as the
stomach which will taint the meat
Keep it coolbull The quicker you separate the carcass of a
big game animal the better Be prepared with the necessary tools (ie knives game bags tarps) to do the job in the event you shoot an animal Donrsquot let it lay there for 30 minutes while you run back to camp to grab your gear
bull Skin the animal as quickly as possible to cool it down and remove the front and hindquar-ters first to speed the cooling process
bull Do whatever it takes to keep the meat cool ie hang it in the shade stick in water-proof plastic trash compactor bags and stick in the river or lake to cool
bull Never put the meat in plastic bags unless they are submerged in cold water
bull Donrsquot remove meat from the bones unless you have to Boning out meat exposes more meat to the air and itrsquos harder to keep smaller hunks of meat cool and dry when they are piled in a game bag
bull Hang the meat to get it off the ground If there is no way to hang it build something to put it on so itrsquos off the ground
bull Check the meat at least once or twice daily Pull up on the game bags to prevent them from sticking to the meat so a crust begins to form on it Turn the meat if you have it lying on something
Meat mandate Keeping it clean and cool
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009
24 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Friday August 7 2009